On Τετ, 2016-06-22 at 21:15 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > There was no response to the question of my original post. I assume that > this was because it was too open ended. So I'll be more specific. > > I'm running debian Wheezy with a SignaLink USB sound card and fldigi > software. The transmitter is a K3 tuned to 14.070, TX DATA mode USB. My > computer uses PulseAudio as default. Alsamixer also sees the presence of > SignaLink's USB Audio CODEC, which is un-muted and at 84%. > > The SignaLink USB instructions tell me to make sure the software's > transmit and receive audio card is set to USB Audio CODEC. I go to > fldigi, Configure, Soundcard. Although PulseAudio is present on the > computer, not wishing to use PulseAudio for fldigi, I have selected > PortAudio. I assume I can do this. Am I wrong?
No you are not wrong... though I can not understand why you want to do that. Portaudio will use ALSA which will redirect you through Pulseaudio!!! > > PortAudio does not offer an option to choose the Transmit and Receive > audio card, but instead the Capture and Playback card. I set PortAudio > Capture to the SignaLink's USB Audio CODEC card. But the fldigi > PortAudio Playback does have that option. Its options are Xonar DX (my > computer's sound card) HDA NNvidia (motherboard audio chip), iec958, > spdif (a cable?), pulse (PulseAudio?) and default (my computer's Xonar > sound card?). USB Audio CODEC is not a choice. Should it be? Should I > instead use iec958? Make sure you have installed libportaudio packages. > > Pavucontrol sees "ALSA Plugin [fldigi]" for ALSA Capture under Recording > and sees PCM2904 Audio Codec Analog Stereo among Output > Devices. Question: shouldn't what pavucontol sees and the values it sets > be irrelevant? See above!!! > > And the fldigi waterfall is strange. Fldigi is set to PSK31 at > 14070.000. The waterfall sees noise only in a band at its center > (14071.240 to 14071.716) and at its extreme left edge (14070.041). While > the middle region has nothing that looks like signals (unless it itself > is a broadband signal), the left edge looks as though it is close to the > IM distortion of a signal just out of range. Although the central region > has no visible PSK31 signals and I hear no PSK31 warble, it and the > extreme left produce garbage text ("e S tite ate oee o e too="), whether > I set the demodulation for frequency or phase shift. The only effect > changing the demodulation is that with RTTY, the garbage is upper case. > > Please help. > > Haines Brown KB1GRM > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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